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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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July 19, 2018 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Langhorne, PA
Large steadt bright light object (the size of a close planet) travled from south to north directly over head. The object traveled from south horizon to north horizon in less then 30 seconds. Too low for a satellite. Sky is clear. No visual impairments. Object disappeared near north horizon and did not reappear.
July 18, 2018 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Greenwood, IN
In July of 2018, my daughter noticed a light in the sky, maybe a mile from our house. It was stationary for about 10 minutes then slowly moved off to the north. We couldn't see where it went because of the trees. The next night, I was on the back porch, letting my dog out, and noticed another light moving at a very slow pace. I called my daughter and her friend and my grandaughter and they wittnessed them also. There was no blinking lights and no noise. They were just bright. The following night i went out the front porch and witnessed the same thing. This time they were further north, over the south end of Indianapolis.
July 18, 2018 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Fort Collins, CO
21:50 - While driving west on Harmony Rd., about 2 miles east from I-25, I observed a light appear very high on the horizon. It was falling as it began to illuminate, so my immediate thought was that it was just a shooting star. However, before I could finish that thought the light came to a very abrupt stop and became a steady in its intensity. This of course caught my attention. I was on a call at the time and began to tell the other person what I was seeing. As I crossed over the Harmony & I-25 overpass, heading into Fort Collins, I once again observed the light drop another 5-10 degrees closer to the horizon; going from what appeared to be a semi-fixed position, rapidly dropping, and then coming to another abrupt stop. It was still fairly high on the horizon. Soon after stopping it began to increase in intensity and then rapidly dim. It went through 3 or 4 cycles of this behavior. On the last cycle it went completely out and looked like it had disappeared. After about 1 minute it came back in exactly the same spot but only at about half of its previous intensity. About 30 seconds after it had appeared again I observed it shoot out what looked like a missle towards the ground, at a 45 degree angle. The “missle” came out of the north side of the object. The light coming from the projectile disappeared when it got about halfway to the ground. 21:56 - At this point I was near the Harmony & Ziegler intersection still heading west on Harmony. At this point I observed the light once again drop at a rapid raid and abruptly stop about 5 degrees above the mountains. It appeared to be just north of horsetooth rock. 22:00 - Earlier I had told the person that I was on the phone with that I would pick them up if the light was still visible by the time I got to their house. I wanted someone else to see what I was seeing. I arrived at 22:00 and we drove to a nearby park on Boardwalk to observe the light. 22:03 - We arrived at the park and we could see the light low on the horizon. It initially didn’t seem like it was moving but we noticed that if we used the tops of the trees as a point of reference then we could tell that it was in fact moving but very slowly. We made it a point to observe the few faint stars we could see and compare their movement to the light. It was clear that the light was moving much faster than any other stats we observed. 22:10 - Other than slowly move further north the light wasn’t doing much. It had drifted far enough north that it was behind a tall tree and we could no longer see it. At this point we left the park and I drove them back home. They did agree with me that the light was behaving very oddly but obviously hadn’t exhibited any of the crazy behavior like I saw a few minutes prior. 22:13 - After I dropped them off I called my mother who lives out east of I-25 near Harmony rd. I asked her if she could see a bright amber light low on the horizon, about where horsetooth rock would be. She said she did see a light and that it appeared to be flickering. I told her about my experience and she sort of laughed it off. I told her to keep watching because I wouldn’t be surprised if it did something else. I said good and hung up the phone. 22:15 - My mother called me back very excited because she said she saw the light move from the stationary spot she had first observed it at. She said it was getting very bright then then quickly dimming to the point where she couldn’t see it. This went on for about 10 minutes until it dimmed completely out. For about a minute she assumed it was gone but then gasped and said she saw it appear further to the north. Not unlike my experience she said it started to illuminate while it was still moving and then abruptly stopped. It then went back into its routine of getting very bright and then dimming almost out. It did this for about 5 more minutes until it dimmed out and never re-appeared. ~22:35 - End of event.
July 18, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Vance, AL
Bright white light moving from south to north at a significant rate of speed. It did not have blinking lights, or sound. It was too low to be a satellite, it seemed to be flying at an altitude similar to commercial aircraft. The object was as bright as Polaris, moving fast, without sound. I have a short video of the object.
July 18, 2018 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Davenport, WA
Exceptionally fast craft moving south to north. Tonight, July 18, 2018 sometime between 9pm and 9:30pm, my wife and I were sitting out watching the early stars and planets appear. The sky was clear. We were sitting facing due south. As we were watching the skies we saw a single light to the south that was moving rapidly towards us, to the north. We see both military and civilian aircraft all the time. We see them at great altitude (probably airlines coming from the east (maybe Chicago, New York, etc.) headed to the west (maybe Seattle). We also see low craft such as airliners that are leaving Spokane airport headed west, or airliners coming from the west headed to Spokane airport. Occasionally we see military aircraft coming and going from Fairchild AFB to the east of us. Except for exceptionally high altitude craft, we usually eventually hear some amount of engine noise. It is not unusual for us to occasionally see a satellite or the International Space Station cruise across the sky. I give all this background because I want to express that we know the usual aircraft that frequent our skies. What we saw tonight was not anything like what we have seen in the past. This single light, no larger than a bright star, was traveling very fast. My guess is that we watched it coming from the south to directly above us in maybe 10 seconds. We were not able to watch it as it continued north. Our assumption is that from the far south to the far north it would have traversed that distance in maybe 20 seconds. The trajectory was straight with no hint of deviance from its path. This light was solid and did not have any light strobes associated with it. There was no way to discern a shape or altitude, other than we could not hear even the faintest engine noise, giving us the impression that it was at a very high altitude. Never have I seen anything in the skies moving that fast.
July 18, 2018 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Peruíbe (Brazil) · Brazil
Estava olhando para o planeta vênus que estava brilhante e bem abaixo dele surgiu algo tão rápido quanto uma estrela cadente mas o objeto tinha luzes vermelhas e azuis e passou com muita velocidade em uma linha reta. Não parecia um cometa. Foi como se fosse um avião muito rápido que surgiu do nada e desapareceu mesmo com o céu limpo sem formação de nuvens. O objeto tinha a mesma intensidade de luz e tamanho de um planeta visto da terra. Costumo muito olhar para o céu e nunca vi nada parecido.
July 18, 2018 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Lake in the Hills, IL
At 3:30am Chicago time I was getting out of my car to head inside from getting home from work. I sometimes look up and enjoy the view of the stars and I also do this because of when I get home. This morning I got out of my car and noticed what appeared to be a star. After observing it for a minute it split into 3 lights. One moving to the north, one to the East and one to the west. The brightest of the 3 headed north. The one that headed east I lost track of once it got into the tree line. After about what felt like forever which was actually about 1-2 minutes the 2 I could still see stopped. I ran inside to grab my camera to get a video of it. When I returned outside I noticed one of them heading west, south west and managed to get a video of it moving through the sky. I lost track of that one once it hit the tree line. The other two stayed in the same spot for a little while longer. The bright one that headed north would move then stop, then move again. It looked as if it was moving northward. The other one started to move back and forth as if it were shaking. ' After about 20 minutes, they stopped moving. I stayed outside for about a 30 minutes after the last sign of movement. After that finial 30 minutes passed there was no longer any movement in the sky as if it never happened.
July 18, 2018 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Santa Fe, NM
Woke up and noticed very bright star-like formation sitting at horizon level; looking out my back yard across open rangeland to north. Realized lights of “formation” too large, too bright, too uniform to be natural. Four vertical, 2 more extending to left at an angle. A kind of blackish void-like quality around them. Got up and watched them, looking away, looking back, for at least 10 minutes. Then it/they was suddenly gone. Apparently at quite a distance and, if so, object was massive.
July 17, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Vancouver, WA
Got poor video of light in southwestern sky approximately over Vancouver wa. Light was extremely red, then would move alitlle and change colors to a light blue then to red. Solid light for a while then it would blink. Stayed above ground in location like a hover, thestarted to move downward towards the ground pretty fast. Then it disappeared.
July 17, 2018 · 12:45 PM · LIGHT
Mercer Island, WA
At Luther Burbank park having a night swim, observed what we thought was a satellite traveling very quickly across the night sky. It suddenly stopped, moved to an almost infinity pattern and then a huge flash of light like 10x of a normal stars brightness and was gone. Not more than 30 seconds later I observed another UFO traveling West, but this was more of an erratic movement than the previous UFO. It stopped suddenly, seemed to move up and down and flashed even brighter than the previous one and was gone from the naked eye. My boyfriend and I were screaming, “What did we just see?“ over and over again. We got quite. 10 minutes later we spot ANOTHER object in the sky moving at high distance, stopped between two stars and seemed to be moving up and down, almost like a ping pong ball and then just stop. It stopped moving for 15 minutes and then would very slightly look like it was falling down and catch itself and move in the same star position as before! Very Very active over on Mercer Island this early morning. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 16, 2018 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Trinity, AL
They looked like horizontal lines yet it is like they expanded and flashed out to where ever they floated. They first appeared to be up near a power line hight then up by the treetops just about 30yds from us. Then they proceeded to go up higher and then came back down and when just across the street near my neighbor's house close to his bedroom window at the side of his house then back in his orchard. His property is about 2 acre the orchard being directly around and behind his home. Then the lights were back up in the sky just across the street. Then the length and depth of the lights grew longer or flashed out further. The lights flashed to the right and to the left at times was just in the sky shining out toward, I don't know what. When I was in my car at the first of the year they can near to the front of my car, the side of the car and the back of the car flashing light toward me in the car. Tonight it was flashed toward my grandson and I. I just had to know if others ! have seen the same thing before. I would not see the lights moving as much as just appearing and disappearing and reappearing somewhere else. Always the lights seemed to be blinks of fireflies but I knew they were not and they where a line though flashed out. In the beginning, this year when it happened it was as if someone were taking pictures. Then tonight it was if that was what was happening.
July 16, 2018 · 9:00 AM · LIGHT
Columbia, MD
At approximately 9:03 am, I was outside checking something on the side of our house near the roof. As I was looking up, something in the sky caught my eye. I noticed two small white lights very high in the sky. One was directly above the other and they were moving in unison. I didn't hear any noise or see any trails behind them. After maybe 10 or 15 seconds they suddenly disappeared. I thought maybe they went behind clouds (although it wasn't very cloudy.) I never saw them re-emerge. I was thinking maybe they were airplanes flying very high in the sky? I told my son about it this afternoon and he encouraged me to write in because he didn't think planes would fly that high in the sky (and so close together). He also thinks I should have heard some sort of noise and that I should have seen a trail if they were airplanes. There was definitely no sound and there were no trails left behind.
July 15, 2018 · 9:55 PM · LIGHT
Lake Mary, FL
Viewing the night sky from Lake Mary looking WNW we saw what appeared to be a star that got bright and dimmed. The light got brighter again and seemed to have color to it. I turned my head and looked back at the sky to see that to the north and the same distance away and up there was a flare like streak in the sky and the light to the left dissappeared as if it went further West rapidly. The flare like light to the right dissipated and had flashes of white light streaks flowing away from it until that completely dissappeared. Then the original star like light that appeared first reappeared in the same area that we first saw it to only be blocked by some passing clouds. The skys were clear enough to see Stars and planes. Only a small patch of clouds obstructed our view in the end.
July 15, 2018 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Westminster, CO
A bright flashing white golden light was above my house high up in the ionosphere, it was so bright, it caught my attention to look up, it felt like it was watching me, it felt like it flashlighted us, then it moved very quickly and disappeared.
July 13, 2018 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
As it reached a position nearly due south of us, it turned north (as jets typically do to make their final approach to the airport). When it cleared the trees, it was obvious this was no jet. It was a steadily glowing orange object, no sound, no blinking lights and no sign of navigational lights. This is when I called my friend's attention to it. We watched it reach an angle of about 60 degrees in altitude from where we were standing, it stopped and hovered, emitting a bright and steady orange glow. There was no "beam" as typically seen from a helicopter search light, just the steady, unchanging glow. After hovering for about 10 seconds, it began to slowly move back southeastward and the glow gradually dimmed until it was just a faint speck. After it disappeared, we sat back down and tried to find a logical explanation for what we just saw. It was about 2 minutes later, it reappeared again coming north almost straight toward us. Once it cleared the trees, it stopped and hovered near the same location for about 10 seconds before nearly retracing its path in a south-southwest direction and dimming till we lost sight of it. This occurrence being between 10 and 11PM, the neighborhood was very quiet so it was easy to discern that there was no sound created by the object. There were no other lights on it, it did not leave a trail.
July 13, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Van Buren, MO
My girlfriend and I were laying facing up in our tent camping at Watercress Campground. My girlfriend said she saw a falling star. I dismissed it as falling stars shoot across the sky and fade out. Then a few minutes later she said there it is again...I looked up and saw a star like light moving slow then suddenly it got VERY bright and faded away in a circular fashion and disappeared. I will never forget it. It was a strange night because although the sky was completely clear I kept seeing bright flashes of light that was exactly like lightning lighting up entire sky and rumble of thunder but it was clear with zero clouds. So weird. Never rained or clouded up or anything. Cannot explain it and I am a skeptic. It was amazing. After that happened I grabbed my GoPro and aimed it at the sky and set it to night time lapse. I left it all night. I have the photos it took but I do not know how to plug the still night photos into editing software to see it in action. It recorded for a few hours at least maybe more before battery ran out. It will be fun to watch if I can highlight the stars...at least to see the weird flashes like lightning.
July 13, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Swansea, MA
Small purplish light, too large to be an aircraft, too slow-moving and too early in the evening to be a comet. Noticed it mid-sky and it disappeared over the horizon. Seen arching across 195 westbound near Vinnicum rd. Did not check time but was around twilight/dusk.
July 13, 2018 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Tampa, FL
Have had many odd spiritual/other kind experiences; standing outside grilling with some friends and I get this urge to look straight up and I immediately focus on a light moving through the sky. This light was a star. It was outside of our atmosphere and if it was standing completely still you would recognize it as a star. Problem is, it was not standing still but moving in irregular, non-human patterns. No piece of human technology known could make a movement like this. I knew what it was instantly but wanted everyone else to check it out to confirm; once they saw it, they started trying to explain what it was. “It’s a drone.” “It’s a plane”. Those objections only lasted a few seconds as we stared at it cross the sky in the same irregular patterns. One person freaked out and went inside. The others sat and watched as it slowly disappeared and after we discussed what we had just seen. Please tell me someone else in the Tampa area saw this? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 13, 2018 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Catawba Island, OH
Thought at first we were looking at satellites until we watched them move closer tjen away and back. Then they moved from one side of the bay to the other. Could watch them change altitude and almost seem to be playing with each other. Have a couple pictures and video of all of it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 12, 2018 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Fargo, ND
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 11, 2018 · 10:09 PM · LIGHT
Midland, TX
On the night of July 11, 2018 I was sitting outside in my boyfriends backyard with him. While he was smoking a cigarette at the patio table, I had my eyes wandering around the sky looking for anomalies as I was attempting to contact a UFO or get one to appear. I did this by using Dr. Steven Greer's ET Contact app. I was playing the crop circle tones found within the app and trying to consciously contact anyone or anything that would appear. After about ten minutes, a blue UFO appeared above us in the sky and made some smooth motions to the left and to the right. I turned off the app and opened up my camera to record the UFO. The video attached is what I saw. Through my eyes, the object was a blue/ white light hovering above us. After five minutes and the video I took, the object dematerialized from above us and never returned. We then discussed what we had seen and went back inside the house. Short and simple: a blue UFO hovered above us and then disappeared completely. My boyfriend and I both witnessed it and can account for all the details.
July 11, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Silver Spring, MD
After watching for a while, we saw that it moved jerkily in a closed pattern, not a circle, but going all the way around. After watching a while longer, we went to our apartment at Riderwood Village, turned off the lights and saw it through the window. I am a physicist so I know it was not a satellite (because of the jerky motion) and not a star (same reason), so the question is "what is it?".
July 11, 2018 · 4:15 AM · LIGHT
Shepherd, TX
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July 9, 2018 · 4:15 AM · LIGHT
Flatwoods, WV
Flatwoods, West Virginia. At approximately 4:15 am this morning, I happened to be looking out my bedroom window admiring the clarity of the early morning sky. No clouds in sight, so visibility was crystal clear. Because the sky was unusually clear, I was looking to see if I could locate the brightest star that was showing. One star caught my eye as it was a somewhat brighter than the surrounding stars. It was early morning and as such, my eyes weren’t focusing just then. I thought at first that this star was simply twinkling hints of blue and red mixed in with white. After a few minutes of mindlessly watching this star, I start to notice what I thought was movement. At first, I thought it was just my imagination, but I couldn’t take my eyes off from it. I reached for my glasses and once I had them on I could see that indeed this star was moving ever so slightly. I understand that the atmosphere can make stars appear to shimmer, so I didn’t become excited. After approximately 10 minutes of my continual star gazing, I noticed that this same star was beginning to move about more. The best way I can describe its movement is comparing it to a gnat flying about. This was not flying like an airplane and I considered that perhaps it was a helicopter, however I quickly ruled this out because there is no way a helicopter could make those kinds of maneuvers without crashing to the ground. I woke my wife up and asked her to confirm what I was seeing, and she observed this object as well. I decided to step outside to see if there was any sound, but I didn’t hear anything unusual. I took this opportunity to take in more of the sky to see if there were any more of the objects around. There were no others in my area of sight. We live in the mountains and there are lots of trees. I was looking NNE and I will approximate the object was at about 30 – 35 degrees above the horizon. I really have no accurate way of estimating the altitude. I was watching the object through a large gap between trees in my yard and continued to do so until the object was no longer in line of sight. This entire time was approximately 45 minutes. I concluded that the object was basically stationary over one area of the sky and due to the rotation of the earth, my view of the object became obstructed by the trees. I am very interested to see if there are any other reports about this incident.